Open Source Program Office
Open Sourcing the Wisconsin Idea
The UW-Madison Open Awards are sponsored by the Data Science Institute, Open Source Program Office, and the Libraries along with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The awards recognize and celebrate those using open practices in their work and who are inspiring others to do the same. The awards also recognize that Open practices vary across academic communities including: open access publishing, open data, open education, open source software and hardware, open science, and more. All of these open practices are critical to the mission of the Wisconsin Idea - enabling sharing to maximize resources and knowledge disseminations, fostering transparency, and from these ensuring greater impact of research outputs to the public good.
The awards include:
Winners are selected from an annual call for nominations by the Open Awards Review Committee. Winners receive a $1,000 award, and the Hall of Fame awardees have their names displayed in the Digital Scholarship Hub located in Memorial Library.
For his work as a member of the R core team from early versions until March 2024. He co-developed the nlme and lme4 packages for R, among others. He was honored by the American Statistical Association for his fundamental contributions to statistical computing infrastructure and the R and Julia languages.
For his work on numerous software packages in R, including R/qtl, and his openly shared teaching materials, tutorials, and scholarship.
For his work on ImageJ, an open source project for processing and analyzing scientific images. He is also an Open Source Hardware Trailblazer Fellow.
For his work on the executive board of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP) and on the SciPy Conference organizing committee. He received the US Research Software Sustainability Institute (URSSI) Early Career Fellowship.
For her work on open active learning courses that have served thousands of UW-Madison students. She also provides open access to her research lab's materials, data, and manuscripts, contributes scholarship on open science topics, and champions open and reproducible research practices.
For her contributions to open data practices in the fields of ecology and environmental science. She established the Environmental Data Initiative, a repository of environmental data for open and reproducible science, and now leads the data curation, outreach, and training activities of EDI in an ex officio capacity.
For his work as director of CHTC, director and chief technology officer of the Software Assurance Marketplace, leader of the HTCondor open source software project, and the technical director of the Open Science Grid (OSG), a consortium for distributed high throughput computing (dHTC) services.
For her work as director of the Data Science Hub and as an instructor and executive council member on The Carpentries Board of Directors. She organized the UW-Madison Carpentries community and the Midwest Carpentries Community.
The CSPP provides open source software for satellite data collection, delivery, and visualization.
For his work demonstrating a sustained commitment to open practices throughout his scholarly career, and his efforts advancing the practices of sharing data, materials, and open source software within the field of research synthesis.
For his commitment to open scholarship, software, and data that is helping to lead a revolution in machine learning and data-centric thinking in materials.
For his work on GYRE, a stellar oscillation code. GYRE is an open-source tool for asteroseismic analysis used by hundreds of researchers worldwide.
For his work maintaining the OpenLambda project since 2016. The OpenLambda project has over 1,000 commits from dozens of contributors, and serverless research projects frequently build upon and reference it.